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 term, Megiddo, I should suppose it was of the two; rather Judges v., than the case of Josiah.

The seventh vial was poured into the air, that which affected the whole scene below, the place of universal government and influence. The wrath was still in the earth. So, in fact, of all: and now a voice from the throne in the temple announced that all was finished (γέγονε), and the power of God displayed itself in judgments and thunderings of His power; for “the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation.” And never was so great an earthquake—so great a disruption of all the elements of organised social existence. “The great city (that frame-work and centre of this organisation) “was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell”—all the centres of organisation of the nations extern to the great city: and great Babylon is here presented, not merely in its civil sociality, but its full character before—“great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.” The particulars of her judgment also are reserved for a fuller and exacter display, together with her character, as was that of the beast. The precursory judgments have been stated here, and the order of these final ones placed. The fall of Babylon is